NYC cabs will be outfitted with "black box" data recorders
to evaluate the safety of drivers. The boxes record data
including speed, acceleration, braking and other “unsafe driving
factors,” a press release said.

The pilot program comes as part of Mayor de Blasio’s highly
touted Vision Zero initiative, which has a mission of eliminating
traffic fatalities.

“The data collected by this piloted technology will help
our industries reinforce good driving practices that will
ultimately keep drivers, passengers, pedestrians and cyclists as
safe as possible,” TLC commissioner Meera Joshi said in a
statement.

For now, the technology has been installed in ten vehicles,
including yellow cabs, Boro Taxis and private for-hire
vehicles.

The release did not say when the technology would be rolled
out for all cabs.